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Can Ayurveda be leveraged for COVID-19?

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Title Can Ayurveda be leveraged for COVID-19?
 
Creator Jayasundar, R
 
Subject Ayurveda
AYUSH
Corona virus
COVID-19
 
Description 60-68
The world is experiencing an unprecedented health crisis as a result of the highly infectious novel coronavirus. Even economically powerful countries with the best healthcare and technology infrastructure are struggling to contain COVID-19. Conventional medicine is racing against time to produce vaccine and repurpose drugs used in other viral diseases. India has been using its resources maximally to fight COVID-19. However, it is yet to make full use of one of its major resource, namely AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unaani, Siddha and Homeopathy) systems. Ayurveda, which occupies a prime position in the AYUSH systems, has a huge knowledge base and infrastructure accessible in terms of registered practitioners, dispensaries, colleges, hospitals, pharmacies, research centres, etc. It is hence only logical that in a crisis like COVID -19, ayurveda is utilised for the public. Considering the vast clinical knowledge and experience available with ayurveda, this sector should definitely be an advantage for India. This article will discuss why and how the knowledge base and support system of ayurveda sector should be leveraged in trying times as the present one.
 
Date 2021-02-16T06:09:48Z
2021-02-16T06:09:48Z
2020-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/56243
 
Language en_US
 
Relation Int. Cl.20: A61K 9/00, A61P 37/02, A61K 45/06
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.19(Spl) [December 2020]